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Designing On-Chain Options: Amortizing Perpetual Options

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  • Maxim Bichuch
  • Zachary Feinstein

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Financial options are fundamental to traditional markets, enabling strategies ranging from hedging to speculating. Yet, while the Automated Market Maker paradigm has revolutionized decentralized spot markets, no equivalent standard has emerged for on-chain options. Typical designs attempt to replicate centralized exchange mechanics, requiring high-frequency oracles and robust liquidation engines which may fail during stress events. This paper presents a design for amortizing perpetual options tailored to the operational and adversarial constraints of blockchain environments. Leveraging this primitive, we introduce a decentralized market framework with minimal consistency requirements. We demonstrate that this contract functions as a foundational risk primitive for DeFi, enabling applications such as endogenous collateralization and explicitly priced de-peg insurance, thereby showing that this design provides a layer for mutualizing tail risk across protocols without reliance on centralized clearing institutions.

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  • Maxim Bichuch & Zachary Feinstein, 2026. "Designing On-Chain Options: Amortizing Perpetual Options," Papers 2605.19146, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2605.19146
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